EA's Origin service can automatically find EA games on your system and add them to your Origin profile, reports Day One Patch, as a user reports finding a copy of Dead Space 2 purchased through Steam in their Origin account. In reporting this news, Joystiq has declared the process benign: "Origin is known to check out the file names on users' computers -- without reading or transmitting any private information back to EA, of course -- and it now uses that power to streamline your EA games lists. In other words, EA is using its power for good. And to better market its own titles."

SpectralMeat wrote on Feb 28, 2012, 14:14:Don't forget the "we will remove your account and access to your games if you do not login to Origin for 2 years"

I can't say whether that will happen with certainty. I'm pretty sure it WILL, because it's EA. Fuck, they'd gladly shut down everyone's account if said account hasn't bought a new game in the last seven days.

But until the two years have passed and that's actually occured, we can't hold it against them yet. Let's be fair. Besides, there's plenty of other bullshit to hate them for.

Creston

Yes we can. They say they "WILL" remove, not MAY remove. Check the wording that EA has in there. There's a difference. If they said "may" then that would be leaving them a legal loophole in case they ever decided they need to. Even Valve says they "may" remove, so they can remove cheaters. But when EA says "will" that means that they are declaring that they will certainly do it to any accounts not accessed in 2 years.